Prickly forest skink
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prickly-forest-skink-251-2475703
title:
Prickly forest skink
text:
The prickly skink, or prickly forest skink, is a morphologically and genetically distinctive species of skink endemic to rainforests of the Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Area, in north-eastern Australia. Unlike most small skinks, which have smooth scales, this species has rough, ridged and pointed scales. These keeled scales may be an adaptation to its high-rainfall habitat, to its microhabitat in rotting logs, or to camouflage it when moving through forest leaf-litter.
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Species of reptile
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prickly_forest_skink
date created:
date modified:
2023-12-13T17:15:58Z
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13
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